Fender Super 60 with Jet City 1x12 16 Ohms

[BrownSound]

I have a Fender Super 60 amp that I love. I need a small compact and
portable cab to play for it. I just purchased a Jet City JCA12XS 1x12
Guitar Speaker Cabinet. It is a 16 ohm cab. The specs on the amp on
your site list and 8 Ohm speaker. Will my amp be OK running into the
16 Ohm load? How will this affect the sound?

[Mike Tremante]

According to Gerald Weber, and he knows a bit about amps, a Fender OT can
tolerate 100% mismatch.

Mike

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[rgg...@cox.net]

Not.

[KT]

Okay okay...before this turns into a flameout...with all due respect:
for many many years I have plugged an 8 ohm speaker into the ext.
Speaker jack of my Princeton reverb....directly above which, is
printed, "total load 8 ohms" ...now, with an 8 ohm speaker in the amp
itself and another plugged into the ext. Speaker jack, the total load
cannot possibly be 8 ohms any more. Nothing has ever gone wrong doing
this. If it was wrong, then why did fender put an extension speaker
jack there in the first place? Maybe the life expectancy of the OT
gets shelved off a tiny bit.... Let it go. Does it sound good? Yes.
Both ways.

Another example being a vibroverb reissue I turned into a head. The
vibro likes 4 ohms. For most of a tour it was into an 8 ohm cab. No
harm...she did sound a bit sweeter when into a 4 ohm cabinet, or maybe
the club had better acoustics. Did I try a 16 ohm cab? NO.

Yet another...my friend loves his old showman....(not dual showman)
and he loves it with two power tubes pulled and plugged into a 4 ohm
cab. Whoops....that is supposedly wrong too. 20 years and countless
gigs. No problem.

It is my firm belief based on lots of touring and recording that these
OTs can take a full number in either direction...IE: amp says 4 ohm, 8
won't kill it..16 might not be so good.

For the gentleman with the prosonic I ask... Is your extension cab
going to be used in conjunction with the speaker in the amp? If so, I
would buy a speaker with the same impedance as the one already in the
amp....why mess around. Leave 16 ohm stuff for marshalls (and really
old vibrosonics).

Flame on....kt

Ps: where does the cool blue glow stand on all this poop?

[KT]

I meant pro 60...not prosonic. Sorry. Duh.

[Mike Tremante]

Not what, Skippy?

[Alexis messier]

  Hi everyone,

  I have this pro amp, in case you can't see the picture it's a brown face pro 1962. I was wondering how hard it would be to mod the rectifier so it could work with tube instead.I like the sound of the amp but it is very limited ... I think it could sound better if it would compress a little more to produce better dynamics. It sounds to tight right now, I would love to get a more natural compress sound out of it, I got use to play tweed amps since the last few years and now when I plug guitars into that amp I always think the dynamics are not as good and I pretty sure it is due to the fact it has a solid state rectifier... So how hard it would be?

 Also, I really don't care about the value of the amp since I'm keeping it to play, and anyway some of the caps already has been changed and the speaker is reconed, I'm not even certain the output transformer is original even if it looks old... I could not read the fender code on one of the transformer ( I think the output ) ... 

 Thanks for your adviced!!

> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:10:43 -0800

> Subject: [The Amp Guide] Fender Super 60 with Jet City 1x12 16 Ohms

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[pang...@gmail.com]

Hi Alex
       You can modify that amp if you want the pleasure of modifying.  A 5U4 Tube rectifier would work if you can install a tube socket and a switch.
Lots of luck
Paul Angle

[rgg...@cox.net]

Stop sending me these emails please!

[frank]

i certanly would not modify a '62 brown pro. just try another amp with a tube rectifier. there ard dozens of models out there.